Ornamental Iron Railings

A sign and symbol of a luxury landscape design, ornamental iron railings instill your landscape design with subtle refinement. During our more than two decades in business, Exterior Worlds has come to believe that they are emblematic of homeowners who envisage and mold their total living environment, both interior and exterior. With the fitting and beautifully rendered ornamental iron railing, they are saying, “Here, everything matters.”

Our clients believe that ornamental iron railings are one of those extra finishing touches that move a landscape into a superlative category. In a similar fashion, it’s the way a fire and water fountain raises the design quotient for custom swimming pools and outdoor water fountains. Likewise how French drains add a design element to a drainage system.

Over the years, we have installed such railings as part of an outdoor kitchen, to partition off the eating area, for example. We have also integrated them into patio designs along a staircase or at the step-down into the yard. Ditto deck designs when the deck is built on several levels.

In general, railings are part of hardscapes, the non-plant material of landscaping. This category includes such structural outdoor elements as wrought iron arbors, outdoor gazebos, wrought iron trellises and garden arches. In the modern landscape, Exterior Worlds has used ornamental iron for the structural: window grilles, banisters, balconies, doors, screens, door panels, copings, pilasters, and column capitals. And for functional ornamentation: landscape lighting fixtures, door knockers, door handles, iron wall planters, gate ornaments, finials and hinges.

Railings are typically an open design so as to let the gaze out and the view in. They, along with ornamental iron fences, ornamental iron gates, wrought iron driveway gates and other iron elements, can be tailor-made to your individual requests. In choosing your design, you have many options to consider—from the classic to the contemporary.

Ornamental iron, also called wrought iron, has provided strength of form and a sense of authenticity since The Middle Ages. While true wrought iron is mainly used today in historic preservation work, this ancient art form still captivates us—even though we don’t use a fire and anvil anymore.

But if the old ways interest you, you can obtain antique ornamental iron pieces. The stair railing from Barcelona or the balcony railing from a French chateau could add an appealing sense of history to your landscape’s overall ambiance. Exterior Worlds can retro-fit these historic and fascinating pieces into your landscape, based on your specific need.

We have also found that commercial landscape design, as well as private residences, benefits from decorative railings and other ornamental iron elements. Whether in an embellished pattern that recalls de Medici’s Italy or a sparse contemporary design worthy of Rothko, ornamental iron railings speak of sustainability and substance. It makes the statement finely, with a delicate touch, with a certainty born of wherewithal.

Ornamental iron railings stand for an understated, but pertinent concept within the lexicon of landscape architecture. A perfect blend of form and function, wrought iron railings make utility look beautiful, give wings to pure function.